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In Understanding Software, Max Kanat-Alexander, Technical Lead for Code Health at Google, shows you how to bring simplicity back to computer programming.

• What kind of times are these
• Calle visión
• Reversion
• Revolution in permanence (1953, 1993)
• Then or now
• Sending love
• Take
• Late ghazal
• Six narratives
• From pierced darkness
• Inscriptions.

The author reads selections of his poems and short stories.

• Petrified man
• Powerhouse
• Why I live at the P.O.
• A worn path
• A memory.

Intracom is a humorous, surrealistic scenario on board a space ship. An alien presence "grows on" and "takes over" the minds of the crew, communicating with them through hiccups. Gwilan's harp is a life sketch of a musician whose potential, because of the misfortunes of her life, went unrealized.

A spunky survivor of the Hollywood dream earns a living making "infomercials" and B-grade horror movies. What sets her apart from her peers is her boundless spirit and her height of 32 inches.
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• The Nobel Prize acceptance speech
• As I lay dying
• A fable (an excerpts)
• The old man (an excerpt).

Join Arthur Dent, earthling, "jerk, " kneebiter and time-traveler; sexy space cadet Trillian; mad alien Ford Prefect; unflappable Slartibartfast; two-headed, three-armed ex-head Honcho of the Universe Zaphod Beeblebrox... and learn to fly. Is it the end? With Douglas Adams it's always up in the air!.
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Don't leave Earth without this story of the end of the world and the happy-go-lucky days that follow.
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His debut with The Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All was spectacular. Now Gurganus proves his mastery of shorter fiction with this collection of two novellas and 10 short stories filled with diverse characters and rich emotions.
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Controversial painter Elaine Risley returns from Vancouver for a retrospective of her work. Here, in Toronto, the city of her youth, she confronts the submerged layers of her past - her unconventional family, her eccentric and brilliant brother, the self-righteous Mrs. Smeath, and the two men Elaine later came to love in diverse and sometimes disastrous ways. But it is the enigmatic Cordelia, once her tormentor, then her best friend, whose elusive yet powerful presence in her life Elaine finally comes to understand. The realm of childhood and growing up, with its secrecies, cruelties, betrayals, and terrors, has never been so brilliantly evoked. By turns disquieting, humorous, compassionate, haunting and mordant, " Cat' s Eye" is vintage Atwood. "From the Hardcover edition.".
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With great affection for the land and its people, Paton tells this enduring tale of a black country parson in South Africa whose son is condemned to hang for the murder of a white man.
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